Change

Ok.....so my last few posts have been preachy, sad and well kinda boring. So i have promised myself not to write sad stuff again(at least for a while).

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Hope!
This word controls our lives more than anything else. We breathe every second hoping it wouldn't be our last. We wake up everyday hoping that it would better than yesterday. we spend all our lives hoping to have a better one. Even the most hardcore cynic is driven by hope.
Maybe it's our belief that we are "UNTOUCHABLE" or our survival instincts, but hope is ever present. Our every action is rife with optimism and hope at some level. We just never stop to think about it.

I know someone who is sure that he is a cynic. For him it is an indisputable fact. Sometimes I thought he revels in his cynicism and sarcasm.
Something changed today.......

I just stopped and looked at him for a while. I saw that beneath that morbid attitude is a scared little kid who just wants to feel free... Someone who secretly harbors the hope that one day everything will be fine...
You see, he was told today that the ailment he was suffering from is not curable. He had gone through all possible treatments, but nothing could be done.

It broke him. I have never felt him feel this sad, forlorn and lost.

This made me think.. IS IT WORTH IT??
You know all the pain & suffering that I was feeling for him. If nothing could be done then there was nothing I could do to hep him. I put my hands up and said that it is not my problem.

Then I looked at him again....and what I saw scared me...
I had done it....Killed the last ray of hope he had..........

----------This is not me.....a story that someone had told me......
Don't know why I am writing this though.........................-----------

QUESTIONS QUESTIONS!!

Why am I here?
Why do we work so much when we know we are gonna die someday?
Why do we care about others when they don't?
Why cant we just forget our bad memories ?
Why do we have to study stuff we don't even need?
Why do we have to live under corrupt inept politicians?
Why the bad roads?
Why do we have to face death?
Why can't it just be a snapshot? One sec. here the other gone...
Why do we believe in something we can't even see.?
Why do our emotions rule us...?
What is happiness? Our life's aim or some stupid chemical reaction..
Why do we yearn for things that we don't need?
Why can't we have a better cricket team.?
Why can't we win an olympic gold??
Why does the canteen food taste so bad?
Why does it rain when I am mad?
Most importantly
Why am I writing this?.......when this doesn't make any sense.........

IRONY

Isn't it ironical/maybe comical that the only thing that comes with a lifetime guarantee is life...

Independence at last....Freedom Here I Come!!!!!!!

Independence..
I have finally realized one thing. Emotional dependence is something we look for because of being social animals . But in today's world it seems like a flaw to me.
It makes you dependent on someone...And our independence is something that gives us the strength to face everything....
Freedom here I come..

The UNTOUCHABLE

I just heard about someone I know who is dying.
We humans have a tendency to think of ourselves as indestructible, invincible.
Thousands of people die daily but none of us thinks that "I might die today"..
I know its a very morbid thought..but not unreasonable.
We think of ourself as the Untouchable. The all conquering god.
But what are we really..??

20-20

20-20

Any cricket fan would know what I am talking about. It is the hottest topic for debate in the cricketing world right now. Pursits detest it, crowd for the most part love it and cricketers have a divided opinion.

Now my own views regarding to this are my own, but there are some points of criticism rleated to it that I cannot possibly agree with.

What everyone has been saying is that it favours the batsmen too much .

I would like to ask them just question.

How do you decide what good bowling standards are?

Today we frown upon 20-20 because we see bowlers getting smashed around the ground. The best ones going for 8-9 runs an over. But in the 50 over edition don't we call 4 runs an over a good economy rate? There was a time when 4 runs an over was considered expensive. Get my point.Obviously the transition will take some time but then we will arrive on a new set of bowling standards. And then it will be all hunky-dory again :)
Same goes for batsmen. In 20-20 a strike rate of 100 would be normal and anything less would be a cardinal sin.

The only thing I have against 20-20 is that it takes away the variation from the game .There is too less time to try out various things. Everyone will bat the same way, like they are on a mission to rip the ball apart. Bowlers will try and save runs instead of trying to get wickets. Imagine a guy like Warnie trying to be on the defensive !!
I just hope that ICC comes to its senses and understands that this fast food edition of cricket is good only as a money spinner but it wont increase the popularity like they think. They need to promote the game in associate countries more. If they really want to shorten the ODI's the 40 over format of England's former SUNDAY LEAGUE makes more sense. I sincierly hope that ICC wakes up before it is too late and world cricket goes the way that Indian Hockey has.

Chronicles Of The Stupid Kind II:A Curious Incident Of The Dog At The Day Time

Well...continuing the tradition of warning my fellow Nincompoops of mistakes that might have disastrous consequences....

I had a dog(Hence the name of the blog).. A female pomerian(I know that by now many dog lovers would hav started shaking their heads).
To make it more clear, accordin to most people Pomerians are possibly the most irritating breed of dogs.. and female pomerians are worst still..
They just bark, bark and bark. then they get tired, eat , rest and start barking again.
We had just bought her. As you all know I was probably the most adventurous and curious kid since Calvin, I used to implement things learnt from reliable sources like Mithun movies into real life(With some not so happy endings).
So it was one fine day(my birthday) that I decided to test the famous "Battissi" phrase.
I forced open my dogs mouth and started counting(to check wether it actually had 32 ). Now Not many people know this but a dogs mouth isnt exactly the most illuminated place on earth(or good smelling)..
So I couldnt see all of her teeth..so being the genius(again read as INSANELY DUMB) that
I am I started counting by touching the inner ones...
I overlooked a important fact...Dogs are living things!!
It started choking as i reached the inner teeth..
And then the Bitch(it was a female dog) closed its mouth.
A dog which had never bitten anyone in its lifetime bit its master..
Alas...I guess this is irony
(I hope PETA guys dont come after me for this...)

Quoting The Quoted

This is probably the most famous quote to come out from the pen of Alexander Pope.......
(I guess everyone must have heard it..........)

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot;

The world forgetting ,by the world forgot;

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind;

Each prayer accept'd and each wish resign'd;


Well this might sound a wee bit too melodramatic but wouldnt it be nice if you could just erase your bad memories..............

Theory Of Relativity

Theory of relativity. One of the most famous theories ever. (Made more famous because no one could understand it....)
When Einstein was asked to describe it in "English" he said " When you are sitting with a beautiful woman time seems to slow down. Eternity seems like a second.... and when your hand is on a hot stove , a second seems like eternity" I couldnt agree with him more...

This I have come to realize within the past few days...It seems that when I am having fun, time seems to fly...
And when I am alone, thinking time seems to slow down to a crawl. Everything stands still.
It might be a stupid analogy but, it is similar to when you fall in love..You know everything is in slow motion when you are around her.I hope it makes sense to at least one of the freaks out there(No offense meant to those who find it sensible though...).
I mean try to think about the angel of your dreams. You see her running towards you in slow motion...Lke in movies... and imagine the same thing where your angel is replaced by a guy carrying a knife......
See my point?

Chronicles of The Stupid Kind

This not a blog ......more of a lesson to all the curious people out there who wish to unravel the mysteries of nature.........
This was back in the year of 1991...it was a nice morning....sun was shining ...birds were chirping ........dogs were fighting.....you know the routine...
I was roaming around near the frontyard and it was at that moment that curiousity struck.......
Now one has to understand that human mind(specially one belonging to a 5yr old kid) is one of the weirdest things in the world....It can arrive at the stupidest of conclusions and make them look perfectly logical and intelligent.....
Something similar happened to me.....
I was a curious little child..
I saw a buffalo outside...quitely goin about its buisness...
eating grass...and then returing it to nature........
I couldnt take my eyes off it.........
I noticed that it was black(great observation..I know)
Then my eyes fell on a piece of coal lying besides me......
and then I had a bulb moment(You know like the ones in cartoons where a bulb lights above your head)...
So I ...Yash the fearless(read as "insanely dumb") went ahead and tried to feed the buffalo that piece.........with disastrous result..........
Stupid thing stepped on my fingers and shattered them to pieces..........
all the trouble just because I tried to feed it...........

Anyway...I learned a very important lesson that day.......
which i want to pass on to my friends......
STUPIDITY HURTS